Bridge money, bridge toll and pontoonage (bridge money, bridge toll; interim payment)

A traffic tax levied in many places in earlier times when people and vehicles crossed a bridge. It was payable immediately in cash and collected by the bridge keeper (Brückner; bridge toll collector). The revenue from the toll was usually earmarked to pay the bridge keeper and to pay off and maintain the structure. – A payment that still has to be made today, especially in the Netherlands, by boats that want to pass under a bridge – on a small canal – and for the purpose of which the bridge has to be raised. Traditionally, in the Netherlands, the footbridge keeper is given the corresponding coin by the ship’s master. – In the course of labor market policy, according to § 421k of the German Social Code, a payment that is paid to unemployed persons over 55 years of age in half the amount of unemployment benefits if they declare to the employment office that they no longer wish to receive public employment services. – See unemployment benefit, poor man’s allowance, chaussee allowance, city toll, service allowance, dispensation allowance, celebration allowance, ferry allowance, ford allowance, harbor allowance.

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